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March 5, 2014

Top Ways to Help Animals in Labs

Kitty, who now lives at The HSUS's Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch, suffered the repeated trauma of having 10 of her 14 babies taken from her while living in the now-defunct Coulston laboratory in New Mexico. HSUS

Every animal has a story.

Echo, a pet dog, is stolen from his backyard in Arkansas and sold by a Class B dealer to a research laboratory in Minnesota.

It's hard to believe that his story is true, yet Echo represents just one of the millions of animals who are harmed by experiments or suffer in laboratories in the United States every year.

You can help. Take action with our list of ways to make a difference for animals in labs.

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Help chimpanzees abandoned in Liberia

The New York Blood Center refuses to honor its commitment to care for dozens of its former research chimps. Take action and send the NYBC a message requesting that they do what is needed to care for these chimps.

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